《Sand Castles by the Sea》 Sand Castles by the Sea From the day I woke to living Til each night I go to sleep I find myself surrounded By the dark and angry deep And then I''m alone withsand CastlesI can build With walls and turrets rising Some of them are beautiful Sublime Others built too close to shore Are touched by waves and there no more Just moments after laying The foundation And then A person stands there next to me We build a castle by thesea He says that''s sweet Let''s build it higher yet But each night My island sinks beneath the tide Castlesdon''t build higher Tomorrow comes And then I''m alone withsand The person that was next to me He builds hiscastlesinland From "stone" and "steel" And love and hopes and dreams And next door they say There''s a castle built by someone else There''s a city There''s a world Of everyone but me Who buildscastles While I buildsandcastlesby thesea Thecastlesthat they build All grow and rise and fall Each changing as the days or years go on The simplest ones are stone or mud Made only days before The grandest are of gold Forty fifty years made tall And everyone is building Friendships as they talk and laugh Lovers as they smile Strangers as they pass upon the street Castlesmade of hopes and dreams Are built in every moment With every single person that they meet There''s onlysandupon my island No mud or gold or steel Which makes me think that maybe None of those are real Well maybe they are real for all of them But not for me I''ve learned thatcastlesbuilt inland Can last for ages That even huts of mud or sticks Can last for weeks or years Really? No matter how I pile upsand It falls Even if I fall asleep Inside a massive sheltered keep With walls built tall by many hands When morning breaks it''s gone And then I''m alone withsand The people come and go with time Some build a day or three But no one ever sees thecastles Drown beneathsea They think they''re built Of stone or mud or steel But mud and stone and steel Don''t disappear Which means it''s me Perhaps we build a castle You of wood and I ofsand And days go by and then we meet again I have no answers to your stories No insight to your mind No feelings for your hopes or fears or dreams No castle made of memory No proof we ever met Nothing left butsandbeside thesea
So who would spend their days Buildingcastlesthat can''t be Except for me? It''s hard to hope that someone Would choose to live onsand When others offer mud or stone or steel It''s hard to watch as people build just once Then walk away Becausesandcastlesaren''t things They understand It''s hard to watch mycastleswash away Sometimes I end up crying As the tide comes in And then I''m alone withsand